John Henry Westen started again… a channel on the tyrannical YouTube.com
John Henry Westen, the Canadian co-founder of LifeSiteNews.com - who was kicked out last week for leading this media in a traditional Catholic direction - started a YouTube channel on Saturday under the handle “SignOfTheCrossMedia”.
For many years, he has written accurately about this platform being part of evil forces: "We will never stop warning you about the ways in which globalist forces want you dead. This is why we are massively censored by Big Tech: Google in all searches, Facebook, Twitter (X), YouTube and so on."
On another occasion, he warned that YouTube has suppressed his content: "Friends, Big Tech doesn't want us to be in touch. That’s why they are fighting hard to silence and cancel LifeSiteNews."
He wanted six-figure sums to develop software technology independent of Big Tech and its "monopolistic reach", yet LifeSiteNews never built it and always uploaded their content to the "enemy's platforms".
In March 2023, Westen announced: ‘My team has developed a sound plan to …More
"Un canal en el tiranico YouTube.com"
John Henry Westen: "Por eso nos censuran masivamente las grandes tecnologicas: Google en todas las busquedas, Facebook, Twitter (X), You Tube, etc."
En mi opinión, es por esto que estoy muy agradecido con GTV. Gracias GTV.
John-Henry has no choice but to turn to big-tech to get his message out--at least at this point. With less overhead he might be better able to quickly collect the resources needed to build an alternative platform. But as someone who was banned twice from LifeSite News over the years I would hope that I will be permitted to respectfully express my views more freely with John-Henry's new platform.
@Irishpol
He didn't waste any time getting his "message" out, which, predictably, is "send me money"
@Patricia McKeever Why such a mean, uncharitable, calumnious disposition against John Henry? Your words are so cold and unkind. Such evil is beneath you, my sister.
@lancs1 @English Catholic
Nobody is "kicking JHW when he's down" - he's not "down" - I've just watched him alongside his wife on YouTube and he is perfectly fine, apparently not unhappy at his situation which has brought him into the "martyr" category. The LSN board should have acted much sooner to remove him because he had brought their pro-life site into disrepute by pushing nonsense "visions" and "prophecies" By doing their duty, albeit belatedly, they did the right thing because JHW had abandoned the good work of which you speak by ditching the pro-life message (never more needed, with abortion being legalised up to and including birth!) in favour of the nutters he insisted were bringing us news from Heaven. Gimme a break.
@lancs1 @English Catholic
You are right, @lancs1 in that JHW doesn't only deal in mystics etc. because the fact is, he has evolved from a pro-life spokesman into presenting himself as an expert on all things ecclesiastical. He wants to comment on the crisis in the Church since he's discovered what a lot of us were saying for many years before HE woke up to it, that the crisis in the Church begins at the top. This was a Fatima revelation but - like so many "expert" commentators on the subject, JHW appears to be swaying in the futile and Protestant direction of sedevacantism, despite the fact that Our Lady always referred to "the Pope" or the "Holy Father" as did the seers. This simple truth is overlooked by those who seem to think they have the authority to pronounce on the legitimacy of the holder of the papal office, and JHW appears to have been going in that faithless direction for some time now. I hope I'm wrong, but that's how it looks to me and to moi.
@English Catholic - thank you for your careful research into the extent of JHW promotion of false seers. I loved this from you: "...why does JHW think he has some divine right to inform the rest of us, when he has taken the false seer path so often. We have enough commentators. We don't need JHW. What we need is saints." Every word a jewel! Bravo!
2 more comments from Patricia McKeever
@lancs1
"Calumny"? "[my own] now defunct forum"?
Charming, I must say. You're obviously not exactly the quintessential English gentleman, are you, Sweetie Pie, if it's not calumnious so to say, if you get my drift. Sugar Plum.
The only reason the Catholic Truth (Scotland) forum is "now defunct" is because we chose to close it down when it was obvious that we had failed in our original aim. Our original aim was to mobilise the Catholic faithful in Scotland, after making them aware of the extent of the crisis in the Church, the betrayal of our bishops etc. At which point, said faithful in Scotland would be righteously angry and would up and exercise their Confirmation duty to defend the Faith under attack. So we reckoned...
What we didn't realise at the outset, was just how corrupt were our bishops; we didn't realise that the majority of the faithful would never hear of our enterprise. The spokesman for the Archbishop of Glasgow published (in the then Catholic Times) the fact that the bishops' policy was to ignore us - there it was in black and white for all of Scotland and the UK (if not the entire world) to see. And their policy was very effective because...
Only yesterday I met for coffee with a woman whom I recently met when she began to attend the TLM in Glasgow. She is dismayed because almost her entire family is either lapsed or weak, not even attending the novus ordo regularly, but only now and then - more then than now, in fact. Over coffee yesterday she asked me how this could have happened without her realising it until it was too late. I told her how it happens and how our attempts to raise the awareness of people like her were thwarted by the bishops' policy of making sure that our very existence was hidden from concerned Catholics like herself. She was appalled, furious, in fact and said that if she had known about Catholic Truth (she's since seen copies of our work) she would have supported us, very actively. I said I knew that, and it's better to be aware now of what has been going on, than never waken up - the fate of so many Catholics who are totally ignorant of the Faith these days.
We are living in an outright apostasy with people thinking of themselves and describing themselves as "devout Catholics" (always a mistake, of course - that's for God to decide) when, in fact, they are ignorant of the most basic truths and tenets of the Faith.
And those, like my "coffee friend" - when they do waken up - are then at risk of being misled by the various alleged Catholic "apostolates" online. I had to de-programme her yesterday, when she asked about several commentators, including JHW. I explained why she had to be on red alert when reading the various "experts", as none of them are 100% reliable, and I especially drove home the truth that we don't need to go after every claimed apparition under the sun, including some which are approved, because Fatima is all we need now to bring the current chaos to a close - not to mention, bring us a period of world peace.
I hope this clarifies things, @lancs1
God bless.
@lancs1
I agree. If only, if only. The fact is, though, that the hierarchy is dead set against us wimmin being empowered so we have to just take things into our own hands, with which we bless you Brother Lancs1, and be assured, I’m here for you any time you want to deprogramme, or if you’re an American (or if you want to identify as an American) I can also do a deprogram. Oh and you can drop the Pope Patricia formality - you can call me Her Holiness.
Shucks - it’s nice to be part of the GTV family, isn’t it
We don’t need another John Henry hit piece here. Steve’s already done enough of that.
The reason LSN readership and donations plummeted was because JHW had gone in a totally wrong direction - LSN is a pro-life organisation not a "if you've had a vision and want someone to believe you, come to me, JHW The Gullible Guy." I'm glad he's gone so I can now return to checking out LSN for pro-life news. Not to listen to a self-proclaimed prophet warning of the doom and gloom to come.
@English Catholic - I've just taken a quick look at that video and honestly, it's unbelievable. A picture of the Mudgyforgery Lady in the background on the left of the split screen sends the signal, right off, that "Traditional / Faithful Catholicism has left the Building!"
And the comments are of much concern - it is not good for anyone's soul, JHW included, to be treated like saints in this way. For goodness sake, he was only removed from a job! Hardly the stuff of martyrdom.
One more comment from Patricia McKeever
@Jan Joseph @SonoftheChurch
Well, I DON'T think so. Steve has been very measured in his commentary - it's never easy being in a management position where unpleasant and unpopular decisions must be made. This is doubly true when the management concerns souls and JHW was leading souls astray with his baloney and should, frankly, have been removed a long time ago.
I don't remember JHW promoting seers. I tended to look at LSN first page and trending stories. So if he did it does not seem to a major part of what he reported on.
I'm fizzing now because I took the time and trouble to post a comment under an interview with Fr Altman who was, of course, gushingly supportive of his fellow-martyr, JHW. Although I can see my comment, others can't, so it looks like I've been shadow-banned by the person who posted the video (and who will receive the comments by email)... Thus, I wish to place my comment here, for the record, since I do not like suppression of free speech in any online forum where it is supposed to be permitted. Read on, then, for my comment on the YouTube video entitled Fr Altman: Ousting of JH Weston from LifeSiteNews (BIG REVEAL IN VIDEO)
My comment...
I watched this entire interview in disbelief. How dishonest to portray JHW as some kind of saint if not martyr. He's only been removed from a job, remember! And he is now, already, making his living on YouTube - he's hardly going to be living in poverty. As an aside, I have to say that it concerns me that so many Americans see the crisis in the Church as a way of making money - big time.
I just want to mention one very misleading part of the above conversation and it is this: the female (sorry, don't know her name) read out a quote from LSN wherein the explanation is given that JHW wanted to move in the direction of bringing people into the Church and she quotes Our Lord's Great Commission to justify that (Go into the whole world...) and this, of course, leads to Fr Altman's grinning GOTCHA delight, as if, now it is clear that LSN is wrong.
Nope. Not unless Luther was right at the Reformation to use the Bible to pull people OUT of the Church; he split Christendom because he fell for the Devil's clever trick of using good things (in Luther's case, the Bible) to lead people into evil - i.e. abandoning the Church.
The conversation progressed, astonishingly, to suggest that the pro-life message was no longer required, at least not as much any more, because there are some other pro-life groups and somehow in the USA it's not so bad now that some States have banned abortions. No mention of the States which haven't banned it but, on the contrary, permit the murder of babies actually being born.
No, LSN made the big mistake of not removing JHW earlier because some of us were appalled at the way he was interviewing, uncritically, with very soft questions, various alleged visionaries and "prophets". That is definitely not the way to bring people into the Church. And it is certainly not in keeping with the dogmatic teaching of the Council of Trent which does not remotely facilitate such blatant disobedience to the lawful authority of Christ's Church.
Not even JHW can use the crisis in the Church to legitimise disobedience when the order/law is traditional and legitimate.
I would add only this; it is not good for any soul to receive the kind of adulation which the followers of JHW (and Fr Altman) are now publishing everywhere at every turn. He was only removed from his job remember - we are talking John Henry Weston, not {saint and martyr) John Fisher!